Fears for UK recovery as record energy prices shut fertiliser plants

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Steelmakers warn of unprofitability and an extra half a million homes face falling into fuel poverty

Record energy prices in the UK have forced two fertiliser plants in the north of England to shut down, in one of the first signs that the energy crunch could deal a blow to the UK’s economic recovery.

The US fertiliser maker CF Industries will halt production at its plants in Billingham in Teesside and Ince in Cheshire because of rocketing gas prices, which have reached..


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source: The Guardian - 16.09.2021

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